About a week ago, the European Parliament has approved a new regulation We have to change the way of consumption as we know it. From 2030it is expected that the single-dose sachets of ketchup or sugar and mini bottles of personal hygiene reach your fin and they stop being marketed. This is an initiative that seeks reduce the disproportionate amount of plastics and packaging that are used daily.
Within six years, the new European regulation will force supermarkets, restaurants and hotels to prohibit the use of disposable packaging. Instead, customers should be allowed to bring their own container to refill the condiments they want or the paid food that is left over, or even their own cup of coffee to go in cafeterias.
In other words, Europe aims to allow a take away of products accustomed to it but without this implying a huge use of plastic. In this way, it seeks to promote the recycling of containers and, therefore, promote more practices sustainable among consumers.
Reduce plastic consumption
According to data provided by Eurostatin between Between 2009 and 2020, the volume of daily packaging grew by 20%. In this line, in 2021 the packaging generated 84 million tons of garbage, of which a 20% was plastic. All of this waste ends up forming, for the most part, an enormous mountain of waste that is distributed by mar.
According to estimates, each person undone about 180 kilograms per year of packaging. Therefore, the new regulation aims reduce this figure in 5% by 2030and 10% for 2035 and finally a 15% for 2040. A progressive reduction in the use of plastic for which a significant change in consumer culture.
Objective: reuse of packaging
To make the European Parliament’s proposal more feasible, the new regulation will also prohibits the sale of packaging of fresh fruits and vegetables without processing. In the same way that it is intended to end other products single use, such as plastic bags very light or Typical containers where coffee is served to go or other drinks.
Instead, the European organization proposes that establishments offer a certain percentage of packaging with a view to being reused later. That is, the customer buys one of these containers, takes it home, washes it and use it again on future visits to said establishment.
However, this is not the first time that European legislation has been created with the purpose of reducing plastic consumption. From July 2021 tambin is forbidden the use of disposable plastic items, such as plates and cutlery, polystyrene food and drink packets, straws or cotton swabs.
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